Sweet strawberry lovers are looking forward to the season. However, to grow a good crop, you need equip with certain gardening knowledge on berry care. For example, to understand how strawberry is pollinated.
Harvest can be year-round in greenhouse hangars or on the balcony. In closed conditions, the berries must be pollinated independently.
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How strawberry is pollinated
Mostly avid gardeners own the basics of strawberry care.To do this, do not forget from time to time: dig up and transplant bushes, trim the mustache, protect the plant from weeds, diseases and pests.
In a closed environment, the plant needs pollination. Carry out the procedure yourself. During flowering, it is necessary to provide artificial pollination of bushes.
There are 2 methods for this:
- Use for pollination fan. Due to gusts of air, pollen transfer will occur. With the help of a fan, it is possible to ensure uniform transfer of pollen from a flower to a flower.
- Pollination of each individual flower independently using a soft brush. This method is suitable for pollination of a small plantation.
Such factors as lighting affect the flowering of garden berries.. To help strawberries bloom indoors, you need to organize artificial light for the harvest for 15 hours a day.
Shrubs that already have buds start blooming in 10 days. Flowering lasts about 10-14 days.
Flowers bloom unevenly, in the interval of 1-4 days. To culture gave large berries, it is recommended to cut the first flower stalks.
In the open ground
On open ground, pollination occurs due to the wind and insects that deliver pollen to the plant. When large plantations are recommended independently put hives near the garden plot.
For example, one family of bees or bumblebees is able to pollinate up to 0.1 hectares of land.
Pollination in enclosed areas
Caring for a fruit and berry crop in heated heated hangars and greenhouses has been practiced all over the world for a long time.
For manual pollination you will need:
- fan;
- soft brush.
Instruction:
- The flowering period depends on the variety of strawberries. During this period, each flower should be pollinated three times. This can be done using a fan in cold mode (without warming up). You should turn on the device on the weakest mode and send it to the strawberry plantation. Leave the fan for 45 minutes.If the air flow does not affect all bushes, then after the allotted time you need to move the device in the other direction.
- Pollination with a brush process is long and laborious. The brush should be chosen with a soft nap. She needs to go through each flower individually. The procedure must be done with the open flowers. It is best to carry out pollination early in the morning, repeating it every three days. Together, a soft brush can be applied cotton wound on a stick.
How to pollinate berries grown in greenhouses
If the greenhouse or hangar is large enough and it is difficult to pollinate with a brush, then conditions can be arranged so that bring the bees into the room. Enough for 1000 sq.m. one hive.
To grow a decent harvest of berries, due attention should be paid to the choice of seeds. Only a few varieties are suitable for growing in greenhouses.
Preferably choose:
- pollinated or repair varieties;
- early maturing
- neutral day.
The shorter the ripening time, the better.. Even with a very dense planting bushes, repair variety will give a rich harvest. Per square meter can be placed up to 80 bushes at once.
In addition, the strawberry of a neutral day needs less constant light and grows well.
To avoid the risk of non-yield, it is recommended buy several varieties at once in the form of seeds.
What crop can be harvested
From one bush
To the berries were large, need to choose a high-yielding variety. There are varieties that give a few kilograms of a shrub.
These varieties include:
- Chemora Kurusi;
- Mutant 120;
- Dynamite;
- Queen Elizabeth;
- Temptation;
- Evie 2;
- Capri.
Old varieties can yield from 1 bush to 500-1000 grams. On average, with proper care, proper feeding you can get 400-700 grams from a bush.
From one hundred
Weaving is a land plot of 10 by 10 meters. Depending on the variety, how many from 1 weave can be collected: 50, 100, 200, 300, 500 kg strawberries.
Not all varieties of this berry are suitable for such a thick planting. Varieties Elizabeth-2, Marshal, Winona, Honey You can plant thickly. Accordingly, the harvest will be richer.
With one square. meters
From one square meter can be collected from 15 to 50 kg strawberries depending on the planted variety and method of cultivation.
It is necessary to take into account the density of planting, age, soil composition and other conditions that increase the fertility of the plant. On average, with one bush you can get 0.5-1 kg of strawberries.
The better the variety, the more berries it gives. One berry can weigh 10 g, and can reach 50 g.
As you see growing berries all year round available to everyone and does not require large expenditures. The main thing is to care for the plant and pollinate in time.
Challenges with pollination may occur.Only if cultivation of large plantations occurs, the installation of several hives is recommended.
You have a rich harvest!